Giants in Europe, there are a lot more
Only Americans think the opposite, i wonder why..
And speaking of market, Europe is a big player, https://www.vgchartz.com/ console sales speak for itself
Stop being brainwashed
ARM is in the UK and not the EU. It's owned by a Japanese company and soon an American one.
Does Europe do that well in pharmaceuticals? It looks to me like the US is leading in biomedical research publications. [1] Some European countries are ahead when measured per capita, but only some and that's not an important figure here.
The rest I'm unsure about, but I would like to note that as a market China would easily dwarf Europe. As China becomes richer Europe will become less important in comparison.
[0] Page 10 at https://www.worldsteel.org/en/dam/jcr:f7982217-cfde-4fdc-8ba... (PDF)
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4566288/#!po=13...
Except that ARM has many offices outside the UK developing important IP. Their Mali Bifrost and Valhall GPU architectures are mainly developed in Scandinavia by former Falanx Microsystems of Norway, aquired by ARM in 2006, hence the norse naming.
Sidenote: Norway is not a part of the EU.
Steel isn't a relevant metric these days. Almost all developed countries can make as much as they need. China needs and produces more because they have to catch up.
> Does Europe do that well in pharmaceuticals? It looks to me like the US is leading in biomedical research publications.
I would hope that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoffmann-La_Roche
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novartis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AstraZeneca
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanofi
etc. aren't just twiddling their thumbs :-)
People often throw around numbers like this without any context. In the other thread people were trying to judge economics of electric powerplants by total weight.
Why is this a relevant metric? Why would you not expect China, which is 2x the population and is building infrastructure to refine more steel? Like they also produce more food and plastic, so what?
It also is hardly correlated with wealth, wages or GDP. There has been a glut of steel on world markets for the past few years.
Are the kinds of steel produced even comparable, i.e. only recently China could produce ballpoint pens
www.bbc.com/news/amp/business-38566114
Because the parent poster brought it up. Also, Japan produces about the same amount of crude steel as the US despite being less than half the population.
(Airbus has pretty heavy government involved, to be fair.)
And whenever the planned giant at least comes to reality, even if it is as dwarf; the politicians who previously made great announcements, distributed millions, created random office, launched parties and cut the ribbon of the project in front of cameras, then don't even feed it with public commands, but give them to the very American or Chinese giants those projects were supposed to counterbalance.
I don't think anyone here believes this kind of announcement any more: there has been so many similar ones already, that are already forgotten and replaced with yet another announcement 9 months later, and again, and again.
Was that so silly? AMD seems to be doing alright.
The Germans on the other hand, you can't keep them from forming giant trusts and cartels if you wanted to.